New Delhi, After the explosive century of Jace Butler, the bowlers put on a stellar performance to lead the Rajsthan Royals to a 14-run victory over the Delhi Capitals in the 17th season of the IPL-T20 cricket tournament on Friday. In IPL-2022, Delhi won the toss on Friday and invited RR to bat first.
Jess Butler and Devdutt Padikkal’s Rajasthan opener Jade batted in a tumultuous manner with the help of which the team scored a massive 3 for 3 in the allotted 20 overs. Butler hit 115 off 9 balls while Padikkel hit 4 runs.
Delhi’s better performance against a huge target of 3 runs was good but not enough to give victory. Delhi could score 203 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in 20 overs. With this, Rajasthan Royals have become the third team in the points table with 10 points.
Rajasthan have won five and lost two of their seven matches. With this victory, the team of Rajasthan has reached the top position in the points table, leaving behind the Gujarat Titans. Prithvi Shaw and David Warner’s opening jade gave the Delhi team a good start as expected. The Jadees were bowled out for 4 in 4.5 overs.
However, both were better out after the set. They could not turn a good start into a big innings. Shaw hit 4 off 9 balls with five fours and a six. Warner, meanwhile, hit five fours and a six off 12 balls.
Sarfaraz Khan was dismissed for a run. Skipper Rishabh Pant also batted aggressively but was also dismissed after being set. Rishabh Pant played an innings of 3 runs in 4 balls. In which he hit four fours and two sixes.
Lalit Yadav scored 4 runs in 4 balls. While Rowman Powell hit 5 off 12 balls with the help of five sixes but his efforts were not enough to give the team victory.
Famous for Rajasthan, Krishna took three wickets, Ravichandran Ashwin two and Obey McCoy and Yuzvendra Chahal one each. Delhi won the toss and elected to bat first. Rajasthan Royals batted hard and scored 2 for 2 in 20 overs.